Our story
MAI was founded by Yuchen Wu and Jian Wang, technologists and operators who spent a decade building ad platforms and e-commerce engines. They recognized that small and medium-sized businesses lacked access to the advanced growth technology powering the largest platforms—and set out to change that.
Today, a rapidly growing network of D2C brands and apps rely on MAI’s intelligent agents to simplify marketing complexity, surface actionable insights, and drive measurable results.
Backed by Tier 1 investors, MAI is pioneering autonomous growth agents that bring advanced data science and machine learning to every business, working around the clock to help them unlock their full growth potential.
A world-class team
dedicated to our mission
Yuchen
CEO
Previously VP of Engineering at Instacart and Principal Engineer at Google Ads
Ph.D in Machine Learning from Northwestern, B.Eng from Tsinghua
Jian
CTO
Previously Sr Director of Engineering at Instacart and Senior Staff Engineer at Google Ads
Ph.D in Machine Learning from UC Santa Cruz. B.Eng from Fudan
Liang
Founding Engineer
Previously Staff engineer at Instacart and Google Ads
Ph.D in Machine Learning from Indiana University Bloomington. B.Eng from SJTU
Xiangyu
Head of AI
Previously Director of Engineering at Instacart and Staff Engineer at Google
Ph.D in Statistics from Duke University. Bachelor in Math from Peking University.
Chia-eng
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Staff engineer at Instacart and software engineer at Amazon
Master in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UCI. B.Eng. from National Chiao Tung University
Jin
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Staff Machine Learning engineer at Instacart and Machine Learning engineer at Google, Pinterest.
Master in computer science from UT Austin. BS from Nanjing University.
Gavin
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Senior Backend engineer at Instacart and at Kiavi.
Master in computer engineering from University of Michigan. BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.
Haipeng Zheng
Data Scientist
Previously Member of Research Staff at The Voleon Group
Ph.D. Princeton University
B.Eng. Tsinghua University.
Destiny Everett
Executive Business Partner
Previously Executive Assistant at Instacart
MFA from University of San Francisco
BA Philosophy from Nova Southeastern University
Tal Shaked
Advisor
Chief Machine Learning Engineer, Moloco.
Mia
Design Lead
Previously Senior Product Design at Babco
Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Tehran University
Tony
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Staff Data Science Engineer at Stripe, with 2 startup exits earlier.
PhD in ECE from CMU, Machine Learning Focus. BS in EE from Tsinghua.
Huayang Cui
Member of Technical Staff
Previously staff engineer at Databricks, ex-Lyft|ex-AWS.
Yihong Wu
Professor
James A. Attwood Professor of Statistics and Data Science. Chair, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University.
Jerry Dischler
Advisor
Former President/VP/GM at Google, leading Ads, Workspace, AI Apps and Commerce.
Dipti
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Machine Learning engineer at Typeface and Data Scientist at IBM
Master in Computer Science from UCLA, B.Tech from IIT Bombay
Kelechi Nwadibia
Client Partner
Previously Senior Account Executive at Google (Ads) and GTM Development Lead at Venture Firm, SignalFire.
Kan Ta
Head of People and Talent
Ex-Robinhood, Pinterest, Reddit, Airbnb.
Ex-Co-Owner of Binc (acq. by Robinhood).
B.S. Biology, UC Irvine.
J.D. University of San Diego.
Suann
Member of Technical Staff
Previously a backend engineer at Verily and Founding Engineer at OfOne.
M.S. Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon
Andrew Watt
Client Partner
Former Enterprise Account Executive @ Webflow, SafeGraph
Founder of Watt's Wigs
Susan Pan
Performance Marketing Strategist
Previously growth marketing lead at Credit Karma and B2C business
Master in Marketing from University of Texas at Dallas
Igor Rogovic
Performance Marketing Strategist
Previously Lead Strategist at HawkSEM
B.A. in Economics, Portland State University.
BO LI
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Senior Machine Engineer II at Credit Karma/Intuit, Senior Backend engineer at Google Shopping Ads and ex-Microsoft.
PhD in CISE from UF. Master and Bachelor in EE from Huazhong University of Sci & Tech.
Jacqueline M
Client Partner
Google Ads growth team for DTC ecommerce brands and CX/AI startup, Reputation.
Nitin Mangal
Product Manager
Previously Director of Product at Walmart.
MBA from MIT Sloan. B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.
Shuo Feng
Member of Technical Staff
Previous founding data science leader at TikTok and ex-Googler. Previous co-founder of CreatorLook AI.
MS in Computer Science of Georgia Tech, MS in Business Analytics of U. Minnesota Twin City. BA Tianjin U.
Lifu Zhang
Member of Technical Staff
Previously Software engineer at Google (Ads). Researcher at BU and Harvard.
B.S. Computer Engineering and Dual degree in Physics, Boston University.
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